Combined chair and shoe-polishing cabinet.



A. SODBRLING. UOMBINEDIGHAIR AND SHOE POLISHING CABINET. urmoulou FILEDmm 19, 1908.

91 1,082. Patehted Feb. 2, 1909.

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ALFRED so'nEaLINe, or CHICAGO, ILLINoIs.

coMBINEDoHAIR AND SHOE-POLISHING CABINET.-

Specification of Letters. Patent:

Yatented. Feb. 2, 190a Application filed June 19, 1908. Serial No;439,274;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, A FRED SoDERLING,

citizen of the United States, and resident of Chicago, in the county .ofCook and Stateof Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Imrovements in a Combined Chair and Shoeolishing Cabinet, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to improvements in combined shoe polishingcabinets and chairs, in which the cabinet is secured from view withinthe chair and rendered accessible by the hinged chair seat. p v

The prime object of the invention is not only to provide a suitablereceptacle for the polishing compound, the brush, etc., for applying it,but more especially for the polishing. fabric-strip, the 7 use of whichis necessitated by the modern use of polish or paste. 7 v A furtherobject of the invention is to have the polishing fabric strip so locatedand fixed within the chair that by the user placing his foot on the edgeof the chair the polisher may be conveniently reciprocated back andforth across the shoe from' the roller by the employment of but onehand. Another object of my invention is to have the polish-strip somounted and secured within the chair that it may be automatically coiledabout the roller in compact form, when not in use, while at the sametime the roller operates it in one direction when the strip is in use'.r

Another object is to have the polishin strip mounted upon a springroller supports and concealed within the chair seat, and in such amanner that the roller may be bodily swung upon a vertical axis in orderto give the varied and necessary direction tothe plane of thereciprocation of the polishing strip.

With these ends in view, my invention consists in certain features ofnovelty in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts, bywhich the said objects and certain other objects hereinafter appearingare attained, all as fully described with reference to the accompanyingdrawings, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Similar characters of reference indicate the same parts in the severalfigures of the drawings.

In said drawings, Figure l indicates a vertical section through acombined chair and shoe polishing cabinet on the line 11 of Fig. 2, andshowing the polishing roller in cross section with its vertical pivot inside elevation, and Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 22 ofFig. 1.

In the said drawings 3 indicates an ordinary, and preferably, a kitchenor hall chair, the seat frame 4 of which is supported upon four legs, 5,5, connected by the usual front and back bars, 6, 6, and side bars 7, 7,and is provided with the usual front and back rungs, 8, 8, and siderungs, 9, and may be provided with the usual back 10. The said frame hasits rear end in two parts secured together by a hinge 11, so that it maybe elevated to the osition shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, an when soelevated inclined sufficiently to rest against the back 10. Fittingwithin said frame is a box 12, which is, as shown, of octagonal shape,but which may be of any other form, secured in place by screws 13,passing therethrough into the bars 6.

- The cabinet is entirely inclosed and concealed by the seat framewithin which it fits and by the seat, the edge of the frame forming afoot rest for the user when the seat is elevated.

Supported upon the bottom of the cabinet is a bar 14, having at oppositeends brackets 15, 15, rising at an angle thereto and forming bearingsfor a roller 16, the member 14 being swiveled to the bottom of thecabinet by cabinet upon the underside of which latter is a nut forlocking the bolt against accidental detachment. In other words, the

roller is swiveled so that it may freely turn on a vertical axis todiffering angles and thereby provide for the olishing strip bein sodirected as to polish t e shoe on its several sides.

The roller 16 is a spring actuated roller, as for exam le, like anordinary spring actuated shade-roller, and has secured thereto at oneend a fabric strip 19 wound thereon and provided at its free end with ahand-hold 20, also serving as a sto preventing the roller from entirelyunwind ing its spring, when the polishing strip, is released from thegras of the user, and to which end the hand-ho d is of suflicientthickness to prevent the end passing beneath and between the roller, andthe roller support 17.

When it is desired to operate the polishing strip, the seat is raised tothe position shown in dotted lines in hig. 1, the operator, after takinghold of the hand-held 20 and partly unwinding the polishing strip thenrests his foot on the edge of the chair, pulls the pol ishing strip downupon and across his shoe in one direction, and when the polishing striphas reached the limit of its unwinding, the user then stops pulling, andpermits the spring to actuate the strip, the result being that the stripoperates upon the sides of th shoe in both directions. Owing to theswiveling of the roller, the strip may be reciprocated in differentdirections, and still he retained in a wound condition, the result beingthat it may be pulled out at differing angles, and that a perfectpolishing of the shoe by the same manipulation of the strip, as if itwere held by a second person, as it is usually done when polishing shoeswith fabric strips.

The essential feature of my invention in addition to havinga polishingstrip concealed within a chair offering a convenient footrest for theoperation of the strip is in having a stri automatically actuated in onedirection and capable of being shifted at dillering anles withoutwrinkling or buckling and. there fore my invention is not limited to theparticular form and arrangements of the pivotal support for the roller,for obviously this may be mechanically varied in form and arrangementand the results above referred to be secured.

Having now described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is:

1. A combined chair and shoe polishing cahinet comprising incombination, a chair body, a hinged seat therefor, a cabinet scouredwithin the seat frame, a roller therefor supported within the cabinet, apolishing strip secured to said roller, and means for actuating theroller to wind the strip thereon, substantially as describexl.

2. A combined chair and shoe polishing cabinet comprising in combinationa chair, a seat hinged at one side thereof, a cabinet secured to thechair adjaccntly below the seat, a roller and a support therefor pivotedin the cabinet, a strip secured to said roller and means for actuatingthe roller to wind the strip thereon, substantially as described.

3. A combined chair and shoe polishing cabinet comprising in combinationa chair, a seat supporting frame, a cabinet confined with said frame, aseat hinged to one side thereof, a roller, a polishing strip securedthereto, a spring for automatically actuating the roller to wind thestrip thereon, a frame sup orting the said roller and a swivel for saisupport whereby the roller may be moved about an axis at a right anglethereto, substantially as described.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal,this 11th day of June A. D. 1908.

ALFRED SODERLING.

W'itnesses JNo. G, ELLIOTT, M. G. Frrzsrnnons.

